# doo
## English
### Etymology

1950s, from child speak.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: do͞o, IPA: /duː/
* (US) enPR: do͞o, IPA: /du/
* (General Australian) IPA: /dʉː/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uː
* Homophones: do; dew, due (yod-dropping)

### Noun

doo
* (childish) feces, particularly that of a dog.
    Synonyms: BM, doo-doo, doody, poo, poo-poo, poop

### Interjection

doo
* (music) Used as a scat word in singing.
** 1995, Phil Farrand, The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers: Volume 2:(Ever feel like you've just entered... The Twilight Zone? Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo....)
** 2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music, page 272:[…] the bloke who sang about coloured girls going 'doo de doo de doo doo d'de doo de doo de doo' had once had this thing with the guy who produced the debut albums by the Stooges and Patti Smith.

#### Related terms

* doo-wop

### Derived terms

* cock-a-doodle-doo
* dog-doo
* doo-dad
* doo-hickey
* doo wop
* doo-wopper
* doo-woppy
* fuck-a-doodle-doo
* in deep doo-doo
* whoop de doo
* whoop-de-doo
* whoopdee doo
* whoop-dee-doo
* whoop dee doo
* whoopee doo
* whoopee-doo
* whoopy doo
* whoopy-doo
* woopty doo
* woopy doo
* woopy-doo
* yaba daba doo
* yabba dabba doo
* yabba-dabba-doo
* zip-a-dee-doo-dah

### See also

* king of the doos

### Anagrams

* ODO, Odo, OOD, odo-

## Äiwoo
### Pronoun

doo
* (interrogative) what
* (interrogative) how

### References

* Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Galician
### Verb

doo
* first-person singular present indicative of doar
* (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of doer

## Gooniyandi
### Noun

doo
* cave

## Manx
### Etymology

From Old Irish dub, from Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black”).

### Pronunciation

* (Northern) IPA: /dau̯/
* (Southern) IPA: /duː/

### Adjective

doo
* black
* inky
    Synonym: dooagh

#### Derived terms

* Yn Vooir Ghoo (“the Black Sea”)

### Noun

doo m (genitive singular doo, plural dooghyn)
* ink

#### Derived terms

* boteil doo (“ink-bottle”)
* feddan doo (“ink-feed”)
* kiap doo (“ink-pad”)
* poagey doo (“ink-bag”)
* tobbyr ghoo (“ink-well”)

### Verb

doo
* to ink

### See also

Colors in Manx · daaghyn (layout · text) :
| bane | lheeah | doo |
| jiarg; feer-yiarg | jiarg-bwee; dhone | bwee; bane-wuigh |
| | geayney, glass | |
| | gorrym-ghlass, speyr-ghorrym | gorrym |
| plooreenagh | jiarg gorrym | jiarg-bane |

## Navajo
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation 1

* IPA: /tòː/
* Audio:(file)

#### Particle

doo
* Part of the negative correlative:
    doo ... da
    doo yáʼátʼééh da ― it is not good
* With a nominalizer, forms a negative noun phrase:
    doo yáʼátʼéehii ― that which isn’t good
    doo naalnishii ― the one who isn’t working
    doo bénáshniihígíí ― that which I don’t remember
* With a verb + -góó, forms a negative conditional:
    Doo naashnishgóó níká adeeshwoł. ― If I’m not working, I’ll help you.

##### Derived terms

* béésh doo ńdiniichxíihii (“titanium”)
* chʼosh doo yitʼínii (“microorganism”)
* doo nidahałtingóó (“desert”)
* łóód doo nádziihii (“cancer”)
* níłchʼi doo diiltłádí (“carbon dioxide”)
* tó doo bidééłníní (“plastic”)

### Pronunciation 2

* Audio:(file)

#### Verb

doo
* Abbreviation of dooleeł (“it will be”).
* When paired with ńtʼééʼ, forms a conditional:
    Dine bizaad bóhooshʼaah doo ńtʼééʼ. ― I should have studied Navajo.
    Éí nizhóní doo ńtʼééʼ. ― That would have been nice; that could have been nice.

##### See also

* dóó
* -dóó

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

doo
* (obsolete) past plural of døy

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdo.u/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdo.u/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈdo.o/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdo.u/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdo.u/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈdo(w).u/
* Rhymes: -ou
* Homophone: dou-o
* Hyphenation: do‧o

### Verb

doo
* first-person singular present indicative of doar

## Rohingya
### Etymology

Compare Assamese দা (da, “a big knife”)

### Noun

doo
* knife

## Scots
### Etymology

From Middle English douf, from Old English *dūfe (compare woman's given name Dūfe).
Akin to Old High German tūba (“dove, pigeon”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove, pigeon”), Dúfa (woman's first name)), Danish dove, pigeon, Norwegian Bokmål due (“dove, pigeon”), Norwegian Nynorsk due (“dove, pigeon”) and Swedish duva (“dove, pigeon”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /duː/, /dʌu/

### Noun

doo (plural doos)
* dove, pigeon (bird of the dove and pigeon family: Columbidae)
** 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* King of the Doos (“English Carrier (an old domestic pigeon breed)”)

## Solon
### Noun

doo
* song

#### References

* Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Dagur Elements in Solon Evenki, 2012.

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dough.

### Noun

doo class IX (plural doo class X)
* (Sheng) money
    Synonym: pesa

### References

* ↑ Githiora, Chege (2002) “Sheng: Peer Language, Swahili Dialect or Emerging Creole?”, in Journal of African Cultural Studies‎, volume 15, number 2, page 179 of 159-181: “doo n pesa money (<Eng. dough)”

## Teposcolula Mixtec
### Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *ⁿdòòʔ.

### Noun

doo
* cane

#### Derived terms

* doo cusa
* doo tuhu
* doohuidzi
* dootnami

### References

* Alvarado, Francisco de (1593) Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 43v: “caña de comer. doo.”